Drug Chemistry & Clandestine Drug Laboratories

Drug Chemistry

Drug chemist uses a Liquid Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer to identify and quantitate Psilocybin, a Schedule 1 hallucinogen found in some species of mushrooms.

Drug Chemist performs a cocaine quantitation, which allows the analyst to calculate how much of the sample is actual cocaine.
The chemist is filtering case samples. Filtering is done in order separate unwanted particulates that are within the sample.

The Drug Chemistry Section analyzes substances seized under the state's laws restricting the sale, manufacture,
distribution and use of abusive-type drugs.